Category: Featured Fridays

Featured Fridays started out as a program where I hoped to showcase the work of 3-5 of the talented people who are participating on Crafty Tips each week. The premise seemed simple, anyone who had completed an item that they were particularly proud of could have that item showcased here on Blog About Crafts. If more than 5 people submitted something, I would randomly draw for who would be featured that week.

Oddly enough, I haven’t had any takers. With the redesign of Blog About Crafts, I embarked on a new direction for Featured Fridays. Crafters can still email me with their projects but I will be pulling most of the projects from the RSS feeds of blogs from participants in Crafty Tips. I am still adding more and more of the blogs of existing Crafty Tips submissions. Keep in mind, this means that Etsians and other shop owners as well as site owners who do not offer a blog will not be considered for featured Fridays unless you drop me an email to let me know about your latest creation.

It’s my sincere hope that with the revitalization of Blog About Crafts that this category will grow into a true opportunity for artisans and crafters to bring their work to a wider audience. If you would like to participate and already have a listing on Crafty Tips, please use my contact form to tell me about your project so that I can include it here.

Featured Artist Friday – February 10, 2012

Posted on by Michele

Pinterest. You’ve surely heard of that wonderful site by now. It’s like a giant scrapbook being put together by people from all over the world. It’s also become one of the best places to find the work of talented artists you may have never heard of before. With that in mind, I thought it might be fun to take a random look around and take what I find to create a collection of artists who are working with a similar medium. What I found is a group of 7 talented folks who are cutting, folding and pasting paper into wonderful and inspiring artwork. None of them on are Crafty Tips (yet) but I won’t hold that against them if you don’t.

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